Sunbelt Software is well known for its enterprise-level e-mail security products, but the company also supports the individual consumer with its iHateSpam line. If you're fa-miliar with the line, the latest version, iHateSpam 5.0, will come as a bit of a surprise: It's a completely new product. At present it's available only for Outlook, but versions for Out-look Express, Thunderbird, and Vista's Windows Mail are due next quarter.

Sunbelt had originally licensed its consumer-side antispam technology from Giant Soft-ware. When Microsoft bought Giant in 2004, Sunbelt had to take development in-house. Starting with Version 5, though, Sunbelt is licensing spam-filtering technology from Cloudmark. Except for minor differences in the user interface and registration process, iHateSpam is virtually identical to Cloudmark Desktop 5.3.3 for Microsoft Outlook.

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